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| Mr. Jencks' earlier book hit the public by its correlation to the semantics.
His analytical tools from language promoted his book "Language of Post Modern Architecture" into the international popularity. Likewise, I think this book could hit the global audience. It's very contemporary, dealing star architects' icons, written in extremely stimulating fashion. Like David Chipperfield mentioned it, nowadays smart architects engage in exploring designs, not writing heavy theoretical manifestos. In that sense, everyone around the world is experiencing the explosion of interesting icons produced by architectural celebrity system and is trying to understand the strata of current movement. Jencks's book is one of the books that try to understand the trend. For Mr. Jencks, point of departure to understand the current trend is the term "Icon". That word set the examples and tone of the book. the punch line of the book says, ",,,, the paradox that a great icon need not be a great work of architecture, but it must be a captivating one. It has to move your viscera, whether you like it or not, and stay around as a memory image that attracts other thoughts into its orbit." It stimulates reader's brain when it becomes systematic and linguistic. It seeks patterns and underlying principles of Iconic buildings in the global economy era. Mr. Jencks calls it the age of enigmatic signifier, due to the absence of metanarrative/ ideology/ religion. Ronchamp Chapel, to Mr. Jencks, epitomizes the modern icon. It's undulating form, it's manifestation of light, expressing the theology. Yet, what's different in contemporary icons, as is first launched by Bilbao effect, are that they are outcome of digital age, an enigmatic signifiers, freed from past conventions. Some interesting Details : 1. Stories of powerful institutional museum clients. 2. Comparison of two Pradas by Rem Koolhaas and Herzog de Meuron. The brilliance of Prada owner. 3. fulfilling election and empty promises of the cases in Libskind and Koolhaas. 4. success and failure of being icons. 5. different uses of sun as an expression of cosmology. Libskind's Holocaust light (Berlin), wedge of light (ground zero) son of sun (Corb's Chandigarh), and beacon of a new faith (Foster's Reichstag) Fun Read ! |
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